The Noble Quality Enhancement Update

Today we’re excited to announce the latest round of Noble improvements: Noble Quality Enhancements!

Previous Noble Enhancements brought visual upgrades and empowered you to make your favorite Nobles an ongoing part of your adventures. This week’s update builds on those updates with exciting new features that offer ways to improve the odds of high quality Noble children, and for the first time ever: upgrade a mature Noble in your family to higher Quality!

This update also introduces a new Alliance Shop, Peace Shields, and . . . Underwear?

Before we get into it, we’d like to have a word about where Kingdom Maker is now, and where we’d like it to be. A lot of changes have been made recently, and we’re working to address your feedback as quickly as we can. In fact, recent hotfixes were entirely dedicated to doing just that.

Still, we know there are concerns. We want to be clear that we’re still working toward addressing them, even as we introduce other improvements, like these, that the team was already developing. We’re working around the clock to make Kingdom Maker better and we’re dedicated to delivering an exceptional experience for all of our players. Thanks for joining us on the adventure.

Now let’s get into it!

Noble Quality Enhancements

Elixirs

• It’s now possible to upgrade the Quality of an existing Noble with the power of elixirs. Elixirs can be created via the Apothecary in your Keep. Elixirs are crafted using Gems and Soul Shards, which are a new currency that are obtained upon the sad demise of a mature Noble.
• Soul Shards
• Obtain Soul Shards when sacrificing a Noble to the volcano or in the unfortunate event that one of your Nobles is executed.
• Soul Shards upon execution will only be awarded to the owner of the Noble, not the executioner.
• The number of Soul Shards awarded is determined by that Noble’s advancement.
• Soul Shards can also be gained by finishing the repeatable objective chain, “Of Church and State” which requires the dedication of babies to the Monastery.

Spell Scrolls

Spell Scrolls improve the Quality of a Noble without all the fuss of crafting an Elixir, and also grant the recipe for an Elixir of the same quality.

With the introduction of these Noble Quality Enhancements, new Objectives unlock upon reaching certain Keep Levels which will grant players Spell Scrolls to upgrade a Noble in their Family–including upgrading a Legendary Quality Noble to Mythical Quality at Keep Level 25!

• Impressive Ascension: Keep Level 7 - Obtain an Impressive Spell Scroll upon reaching Keep Level 7.
• Impressive Ascension Pt.2: Keep Level 7 - Obtain enough materials to synthesize an Impressive Elixir at Keep Level 7.
• Exceptional Elixir: Keep Level 12 - Obtain one Exceptional Spell Scroll upon reaching Keep Level 12 and obtain another after completing the objective.
• Legendary Leap: Keep Level 22 - Obtain one Legendary Spell Scroll upon reaching Keep Level 22 and obtain another after completing the objective.
• Mythical Metamorphosis: Keep Level 25 - Obtain one Mythical Spell Scroll upon reaching Keep Level 25. Choose wisely!

Players who are already Keep Level 25 and above will be automatically granted the Spell Scrolls as described above upon the release of this update, and will be able to complete any of the above objectives using any higher quality spell scroll or elixir up to Mythical.

In addition, with the release of this update, we are granting a chest to all Players that will either contain an extra Exceptional Quality Spell Scroll and/or a Legendary Spell Scroll depending on their Keep level.

Where do I get more Spell Scrolls?

You can obtain more varied quality Spell Scrolls through Events. A Mythical Spell Scroll is also obtainable by collecting enough Mythical Spell Scroll Pieces through Events and other offerings to craft this wondrous item!

Higher Quality Babies

It’s now possible to improve the odds of conceiving higher quality Noble babies via Research, Underwear Noble Equipment, and Quality Guarantee potions!

We have modified the base Boinking rates but not in the way one might think:

• We have increased the base chance of conception by 80%. This is the base rate, so anything that improves Quality / fertility will only improve it further.
• There are no more penalties for failing a romance-based interaction!

What we have *not* changed:

• No changes to the Quality a baby is born at. They are the same as before, except now there are ways to get better babies.
• No changes to Traits, neither the quantity nor quality a baby is born with.

You’ve offered all these ways to improve Quality, why are you changing Boinking?
A fair question. We have modified the base Boinking rates but not in the way one might think:
We have increased the base chance of conception by 80%. This is the base rate, so anything that improves Quality / fertility will only improve it further.
There are no more penalties for failing a romance-based interaction!
What we have *not* changed:
No changes to the Quality a baby is born at. They are the same as before, except now there are ways to get better babies.
No changes to Traits, neither the quantity nor quality a baby is born with.

Research

• The following new Research Nodes help improve the chances of conceiving higher Quality Noble babies..
• Baby Quality Chance: Impressive becomes available to unlock at Keep Level 6.
• Baby Quality Chance: Exceptional becomes available to unlock at Keep Level 12
• Baby Quality Chance: Legendary becomes available to unlock at Keep Level 22.
• Suspiciously Good Offspring becomes available to unlock at Keep Level 18, and increases the odds of obtaining Exceptional, Legendary, or Mythical Quality babies.

Quality Guarantee Potions

It’s now possible to guarantee the Quality of your next Noble baby (for 30 minutes or until your next baby is born, whichever is first) by drinking an appropriately titled Quality Guarantee Potion.

• Quality Guarantee Potions can be used to acquire Impressive, Exceptional, and Legendary babies.
• These potions can be earned by placing well in Leaderboard Events and from the Store.

Underwear

New Underwear Noble Equipment improves the chances of conceiving a high Quality baby. The higher quality the Underwear, the better the chance of conceiving a baby of that Quality.

• Underwear comes in Impressive, Exceptional, Legendary, and Mythical versions.
• Impressive Underwear can be found in the Alliance Shop and Exceptional Underwear can be found in the Wandering Merchant.
• Legendary and Mythical Underwear can be obtained at a later date.

Alliance Shop

Resources and items can now be purchased via the Alliance Shop using the new alliance currency, Alliance Marks, which can be earned via Alliance Events and Alliance-related Daily Goals.

• With the Alliance Shop comes new hair dye! Now you can dye your Noble’s hair red, orange, yellow, teal, lavender, and purple.
• Resource boosts can also be purchased in the Alliance Shop. The new boosts will increase Food, Stone, Silver, or Wood production within City walls.
• Production will be increased by 50% when a boost is activated.
• Boosts can be purchased in the Alliance Shop; 3,000 Alliance Marks for a 8 hour boost and 6,000 Alliance marks for a 24 hour boost.
• Additional Daily and Weekly offers of materials, consumables, and cosmetics will also be available in the store.

Peace Shields

Worried about leaving your City unattended? Have no fear! With Peace Shields, taking a weekend trip will be a breeze.

Peace Shields are now available:

• Two 8 hour peace shields will be granted via the 7-day chest awarded by completing Daily Objectives.
• Shields can also be purchased in the Alliance Shop and in Store Packs.
• Peace Shields can prevent attacks on your City for 8-hour, 24-hour, 3-day, and 7-day increments.
• Active Peace Shields will keep your Nobles safe from capture attempts in your Keep and at Trade posts.
• Certain hostile actions break your Peace Shield, which will come with a warning.

You will NOT be able to use a Peace Shield (and will receive a warning notification) when doing the following:

• Occupying a capital or buffed tile.
• Moving City locations.
• If you have a captured Noble in your City.
• If you are actively engaged in PvP, including reinforcements.
• If you are marching to PvP combat.
• If your Peace Shield is already activated.

Morale

The realm is now a little friendlier for new players ranging from Keep Level 10 to 14. In addition, morale penalties have been eased for players at similar Keep Levels to prevent situations where lower Keep Level players could take advantage of morale penalties versus players who are only slightly higher level. However, there will also be an increase in morale loss when receiving a penalty for hitting down on Cities that are outside of the level bands listed below:

• You can now hit down additional level(s) without receiving any morale loss:
• Keep Level 15-19 can now attack one level below without morale loss.
• Keep Level 20-24 can now attack two levels below without morale loss.
• Keep Level 25+ can now attack three levels below without morale loss.
• Cities will now smoke for 12 hours rather than 8.

Other Updates

• The Apothecary now unlocks at Keep Level 7.
• Resolved an issue where Nobles could not be sacrificed.